USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- On May 22, 1866, one of the most iconic names in the arms industry was founded: Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
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Oliver Winchester
The company’s namesake, Oliver Winchester, first worked as a carpenter and then manager of a men’s clothing company. By 1848, he had his own men’s dress shirt manufacturing company.
In 1857, he scraped together some money and bought a controlling share of the struggling Volcanic Repeating Arms Company from Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson. Eventually, the company was relocated and it became the New Haven Arms Company.
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